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Simply Divine - RTÉ Arena on Dante's Divine Comedy

The Italian writer Dante created the Divine Comedy some 700 years ago, giving us a vision of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory that has seared into the collective imagination.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in exile, by Domenico Petarlini

For RTÉ Arena, Dr. Enrica Maria Ferrara brings us through the work and explains why it is such a seminal piece of writing.

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